If you voted for Buchanan in 2000, then you have voted for a ticket with a black woman on it. Your detractors cannot say that. Unless they voted Communist in the Angela Davis days. Did they?
Civil Rights was passed by an all-white Congress as conservative as any elected in the Sixties was bound to be. It only passed with Republican votes. And the Democratic President who signed it into law was not only white, but very, very Texan.
That alliance is now as vital as it was in the days of the struggle against Jim Crow, and of the struggle alongside white Republicans against the Vietnam War. Today's causes are protecting blue-collar jobs, controlling immigration, making and keeping English America's national language, returning to a strong defence capability used strictly for its proper defensive purpose, safeguarding marriage as only ever the union of one man and one woman, and ending the triple genocide of the black male in the womb, on the streets and on the battlefields.
And that alliance is nothing new.
Up until the 1960s the Republican Party was, in modern terms, the liberal party, and the Democrat Party the conservative party. L B Johnson was the first liberal Democrat President. When he signed the Civil Rights Act he correctly predicted that the Democrats would lose the South for a generation as a result.
ReplyDeleteAnd that generation is more than up.
ReplyDeleteI have a post coming (once it's been up over at the Telegraph, some time through the week) on "Whatever happened to the Republican Party?".